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Congrats! Do you happen to know whether all acceptances have been sent out?

Also, it looks like Harvard’s not interviewing? Is this an every year thing?

Have you heard from them at all? Because I haven’t (can’t stop checking the results board)

Any news from Harvard anyone?

The publication/conferences experience thing is a tricky one. I too have noticed that many of the forum’s users have got that; on the other side, I never had the opportunity to do either research experience or publish anything during my undergrad, and even as a masters student I’ve been told publishing takes long and is something much more accessible to phd students (in the UK anyway)

Of course, this was all very helpful. I’m really trying to figure out how to make that all happen next year, whether by doing a masters of research or working as a teacher in Austria/Germany or something ?

I did suspect the missing language might have been the decisive factor. Anyway, thank you for the valuable insights and good luck with your interview outcomes, but i’m sure you’ve smashed them all!

If there is something I was very careful (and pretty confident) with, is that my SoP conveyed a clear vision of how I want to employ my PhD and that the professors’ interests at the schools I applied to coincided with my own, so much so that I applied to only two. The problem is that both schools are suuuuper ambitious (and I’m guessing the most applied to), and probably do indeed take it for granted that applicants’ test scores be the highest they can be.

Congrats for all the interviews! It’s great that you’re getting so many requests, and as I prepare to reapply to universities next year, I am attempting to understand how to make myself more appealing a candidate. May I ask you what you think your application strengths are? What I guessed the weak points of my own application are, are my appalling GRE results, the fact that I do not speak the language whose literature I mention the most on my SoP, the fact that i do not have any publications, conference presentations or research experience in my side, whereas that seems to be the norm on the forum. Any thoughts?

Weirdly enough, no one replied to my e-mail yet

That's actually the deadline set for the MA, but thanks anyway

I have taken the terrible decision of only applying to two major universities - not out of presumption, rather because there were not other programs which reflected my interests as much - and now I'm regretting it big time, as I fear both will turn me down. Do you guys know whether there are any late deadlines or spring admissions that I could lean on?

I was wondering the same thing, about the yale interviews. I have emailed the graduate coordinator to ask if all have been sent out already.